. Factory and industrial management . y the great Stephenson, labored stead-ily onward, and finally established the railroad and the locomotive asinstitutions of the land. A great step in advance was made in 1829, when the Liverpool &Manchester Railway was finished. This was the most extensive andelaborate work of the kind that had ever been undertaken,—the firstpassenger railroad in the world,—and its opening on September 15marked an era in civilization. It was for this road that the famous Rocket, already alluded to,was built by Stephenson. The directors had offered a reward of ;^5oofor the
. Factory and industrial management . y the great Stephenson, labored stead-ily onward, and finally established the railroad and the locomotive asinstitutions of the land. A great step in advance was made in 1829, when the Liverpool &Manchester Railway was finished. This was the most extensive andelaborate work of the kind that had ever been undertaken,—the firstpassenger railroad in the world,—and its opening on September 15marked an era in civilization. It was for this road that the famous Rocket, already alluded to,was built by Stephenson. The directors had offered a reward of ;^5oofor the best locomotive that should fulfil certain conditions, amongthem curiously enough, read in the light of the recent smoke-abate-ment agitation, ^,^^ ^ _ -. ,.<r-being a provis-ion that it shouldconsume its ownsmoke this, it was todraw three timesits weight at arate of not lessthan ten miles [ J^^an hour, theboiler pressure was not to ex-ceed fifty poundsto the squareinch, and theweight was notto exceed s i x Besides --^. STEPHENSONS ROCKET, 1829. tons. Of three engines which contested for supremacy the Rocket took the palm, attaining as its greatest velocity twenty-nine miles perhour and an average of fourteen miles, while drawing a tender andtwo loaded cars, the former weighing, with its water and coke, 31-tons and the latter 9^^ tons,—a total of nearly 12^ tons. The con-sumption of coke was only 217 pounds per hour. The day was marred by one fatality, the locomotive claiming thefirst of the thousands of victims that were to lose life under its was no less a personage than Mr. Huskisson, home secretary irithe British cabinet, who, while talking with the duke of Wellington,in a throng of sight-seers, was run down by the now historic Rock-et. He was not killed outright, but died within a few hours, having-in the meantime been conveyed to his house on another engine, the 8oo PIONEER LOCOMOTIVES Northumbrian, by George Stephenson. On this ride the engineerp
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